The Cincinnati Reds planned to bring back all the coaches on David Bell’s coaching staff for the 2022 season, but they had a new opening Thursday.
Assistant hitting coach Joe Mather, who held the organization’s director of hitting title, was hired by the Arizona Diamondbacks as their head hitting coach. Mather spent two seasons on the Reds’ staff working alongside hitting coach Alan Zinter.
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The D-Backs are planning a unique hitting coach structure, hiring Mather as head hitting coach with up to three hitting assistants below him.